Getting started with HBase

We will discuss this section in a bit questionnaire manner, and will come to understand HBase with the help of scenarios and conditions.

When it started

The following figure shows the flow of HBase: birth, growth, and current status:

When it started

It all started in 2006 when a company called Powerset (later acquired by Microsoft) was looking forward to building a natural language search engine. The person responsible for the development was Jim Kellerman and there were also many other contributors. It was modeled around the Google BigTable white paper that came out in 2006, which was running on Google File System (GFS).

It started with ...

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